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Lauren Wolfe

Lauren Wolfe is an award-winning journalist who also teaches at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Articles by Lauren Wolfe

Pedestrians stand next to a New Year's decoration stylized as the "Kremlin Star," bearing a letter "Z," a tactical insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine, in Moscow.

Russia Is Afraid of Western Psychic Attacks

Argument

January 3, 2023, 3:31 PM

The sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 21, 2012 at the United Nations office in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

U.N. Sexual Assault Investigations Die in Darkness

Report

March 8, 2018, 11:51 AM

Refugees arriving from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios in 2016. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out

Voice

October 12, 2017, 2:53 PM

Syrians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes by regime forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 30, 2015. More than 240,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011, and half of the country's population has been displaced by the war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY / AFP / ABD DOUMANY (Photo credit should read ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images)

There Are No Real ‘Safe Zones’ and There Never Have Been

Voice

March 30, 2017, 11:30 AM

Displaced people pass by a government soldier on June 5, 2008 in Kinyandonyi, 85km north of the provincial capital Goma. Nine people have reportedly been killed when FDLR (Democratic Force for the Liberation of Rwanda) rebels attacked a refugee camp on June 4. DR Congo's top UN, US and EU officials condemned the "terrorist" attacks on refugees in the east of the country blamed on the Rwandan Hutu militia. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL HEALING (Photo credit should read LIONEL HEALING/AFP/Getty Images)

What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo

Voice

June 23, 2016, 5:21 PM

DR Congo's Leopards supporters wait to catch a glimpse of the soccer players after they returned to the county's capital Kinshasa following their win over Mali in the Champions of African Nations Championship (CHAN) final match, on February 8, 2016.
DR Congo won the final match of the tournament against Mali by three goals to nil at Amahoro National Stadium in Kigali on February 7, 2016. / AFP / JUNIOR KANNAH (Photo credit should read JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP/Getty Images) — DR Congo's Leopards supporters wait to catch a glimpse of the soccer players after they returned to the county's capital Kinshasa following their win over Mali in the Champions of African Nations Championship (CHAN) final match, on February 8, 2016. DR Congo won the final match of the tournament against Mali by three goals to nil at Amahoro National Stadium in Kigali on February 7, 2016. / AFP / JUNIOR KANNAH (Photo credit should read JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP/Getty Images)

Congo’s Soccer Players Get Cars. Its Rape Victims Get Nothing.

Voice

March 30, 2016, 12:40 PM

This photo taken on October 3, 2014 shows the UN Minusca peacekeepers patrolling through the 3rd district of Bangui, following deadly clashes between armed groups in the Central African town of Bambari that have left at least 25 dead, and increasing security on the eve of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha. The region remains highly restive due to splits within the Seleka "between a branch that is more and more radicalised and another which is more open to dialogue to exit the crisis," said Colonel Gilles Jaron of the French peacekeeping forces. AFP PHOTO / PACOME PABANDJI (Photo credit should read PACOME PABANDJI/AFP/Getty Images)

The U.N. Is Not Serious About Its Peacekeeper Rape Problem

Voice

August 13, 2015, 1:10 PM

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When War and Weather Conspire

Voice

July 24, 2015, 1:48 PM

A Displaced Palestinian woman, who fled the fighting between Islamic State (IS) group jihadists and Peshmerga forces around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, hangs clothes on a fence at the Baharka camp, 10 kms west of Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on April 7, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

The Worst of All Horrors

Voice

June 11, 2015, 12:21 PM

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Refugees in Their Own Homeland

Voice

May 15, 2015, 12:57 PM

A Congolese woman walks on September 3,

A Miserable Mystery in Congo

Voice

April 9, 2015, 1:33 PM

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Not Monsters, but Men

Voice

March 6, 2015, 6:12 PM

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Suffocating Congo’s War

Argument

John Prendergast, Sasha Lezhnev, Lauren Wolfe

February 7, 2015, 9:01 AM

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How Dodd-Frank Is Failing Congo

Voice

February 2, 2015, 9:26 AM

Guantanamo Military Prison Stays Open As Future Status Remains Uncertain

Doctors Without Scruples

Voice

December 16, 2014, 4:14 PM

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